[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 26094]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  O God of power and mercy deliver Your people from every evil; let 
nothing harm the destiny of this Nation.
  Give us the freedom of spirit and the health of mind and body to 
accomplish the work You have set before us.
  May nothing prevent us from making right judgments and placing our 
trust in You.
  Founded on truth, built on justice and animated by love, may this 
government serve Your people and grow every day toward a more humane 
balance witnessed by the world.
  You are the Lord God living now and forever. Amen.

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